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period. Five girls – Amelia Beatrice (known as Beatrice) (1881-?), Martha Annie (1882-?), Violetta (1886-?), Rhoda (1888-?), Louisa (1890-?) – followed by two boys – Albert Edward (1892-1973) and Fred (1892-1973) – and then followed by two further girls – Ida (1901-1931) and Lily (1902-1908). Beatrice and Violetta both married before the 1911 census but, otherwise, one can expect the other female offspring to be in that census. However, it is tough to consider Elizabeth’s situation at the time of John Edward’s death in 1908. I have no evidence that any of the offspring died as children, so Elizabeth would probably still have had Rhoda aged around 19 years, Louisa around 17 years, Albert Edward around 15 years, Fred around 12 years, Ida around six years and Lily around five years, all at home when John Edward died. It is difficult to envisage the struggle that Elizabeth is likely to have had after John Edward’s death.
John and Hannah’s other children seemed less productive in these terms. Nothing more is known about Elizabeth who had married someone named Fletcher and, as stated, was living at her father’s house (without her spouse) at the time of the 1861 census. Louisa married in Bradford in 1863 and currently no more is known about her either. James (1846-1922) also married in 1863. His wife, Emma Turner (1846-1902) was a local Bradford lass born around 1846. James and Emma produced three children – Mary (1864-?), John (1866-1946) and George (1870-1914). The first two arrived before the death of their paternal grandfather, while George – like his first cousin Louisa – was born in 1870, a year after his death. Mary went on to marry in Bradford in 1885, but there is no more information about her. Meanwhile, John went on to marry Annie Elizabeth Cleavin in 1890 in Bradford and they had four girls – Lily (1891-1971), Amy (1893-?), Annie (1894-1970) and Gladys (1897-1993); Amy was the only one of the four girls to go on to marry (to Willie Holroyd in Bradford in 1923). Annie is known to have been a teacher, perhaps reaching the position of headmistress. Anyway, on the Teacher’s Registration Council Register (1914-1948) Annie is recorded as having her first teaching position in 1915 and obtaining her registration in 1920.
Mary and John’s brother, George, went on to marry Catherine (known as ‘Kate’) Skelton in Bradford in 1893 and they had four boys – Robert Harold (known as
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